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i appreciate you coming our own war room fred kaplan. coming up a special lbgt ed decision of the best of the rest. to remove grease, gunk and flakes. deep. like me. [ male announcer ] head & shoulders deep clean for men. ♪ ♪ >> jennifer: now for a look at the best of the rest the stories i don't want you progressives to miss on this wednesday evening. tonight we're lbgt themed. on this date in 1961 jfk gave his fist state of the union address, and he talked about the economy, our role in the world and equality. take a listen. >> the denial of constitutional rights to some of our fellow americans on account of race at the ballot box and elsewhere disturbed the national conscious, and subjects us to the charge of world opinion that our democracy is not equal to the high promise of our heritage. >> jennifer: now our two-term black president is stepping up and asking for equality for all. the white house released its immigration proposals and it calls for lawmakers to treat same-sex couples in which one partner is an immigrant the same
i appreciate you coming our own war room fred kaplan. coming up a special lbgt ed decision of the best of the rest. to remove grease, gunk and flakes. deep. like me. [ male announcer ] head & shoulders deep clean for men. ♪ ♪ >> jennifer: now for a look at the best of the rest the stories i don't want you progressives to miss on this wednesday evening. tonight we're lbgt themed. on this date in 1961 jfk gave his fist state of the union address, and he talked about the economy, our...
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joining me tonight to talk about this is fred kaplan, fred is the author of a terrific new book about general petraeus called "the insuragainst." fred. thank for joining me. >> thank you. >> jennifer: what could we do to cut defense spending that would still leave us prepared for future conflicts? in light of the sequester, et cetera what do we need to do -- how do we need to focus the cuts. >> on the see questation this was a deal that congress made. everybody would be faced with the same pressure. the defense budget is going to be cut quite a bit no matter what happens because of the fiscal pressures and the fact that we're no longer in two wars. we're in sort of half a war instead of two full wars and always there is no need to hang on to as big of budget as you have once the war is over. there are some things that could be cut, for example, we are still spending something like $20 billion on our nuclear weapon's force. we're about to spend more money on two new conventional nuclear powered submarines. do you really need that? if you need two, can't we convert one nuclear submarine
joining me tonight to talk about this is fred kaplan, fred is the author of a terrific new book about general petraeus called "the insuragainst." fred. thank for joining me. >> thank you. >> jennifer: what could we do to cut defense spending that would still leave us prepared for future conflicts? in light of the sequester, et cetera what do we need to do -- how do we need to focus the cuts. >> on the see questation this was a deal that congress made. everybody would...
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hey, fred, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> fred kaplan is the author of the book "the insurgents." >>> up next, a soldier comes home. i'll talk to the family behind this heart-warming reunion at the rose parade. a nice little t, you see, c-max helps you load your freight, with its foot-activated lift gate. but that's not all you'll see, cause c-max also beats prius v, with better mpg. say hi to the all-new 47 combined mpg c-max hybrid. we asked total strangers to watch it for us. thank you so much. i appreciate it. i'll be right back. they didn't take a dime. how much in fees does your bank take to watch your money? if your bank takes more money than a stranger, you need an ally. ally bank. your money needs an ally. [ cheers and applause ] >>> a heartwarming way to start the new year. sergeant first class eric paz returned from afghanistan to surprise his wife and 4-year-old son when he stepped off a float during the rose bowl parade. there were tears, smiles and one happy boy. sergeant paz, his wife miriam, and his son eric are joining us now. first of all, sergeant,
hey, fred, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> fred kaplan is the author of the book "the insurgents." >>> up next, a soldier comes home. i'll talk to the family behind this heart-warming reunion at the rose parade. a nice little t, you see, c-max helps you load your freight, with its foot-activated lift gate. but that's not all you'll see, cause c-max also beats prius v, with better mpg. say hi to the all-new 47 combined mpg c-max hybrid. we asked...
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i think it was by fred kaplan of slate. he said, wait a minute. these are the same guys who say if you criticize israel, you're anti-semitic. wait a minute. >> they're inferring something that just isn't there. another problem is a remark he made when james hormel was nominated to be an ambassador remarks he made about gay americans. this is more from martha raddatz raddatz. >> he made a comment about the ambassador to luxembourg calling him openly guy. then in 2002 he spoke out on the troops in iraq. >> the biggest blunder. >> and his comments about israel incensed many when he said lawmakers on capitol hill were intimidateed by the jewish lobby. >> it points to the anti-gay comments. hagel said 14 years ago, i apologize what i said. barney frank had a problem and now barney frank lobbying to become the place holder senator in massachusetts trying to get duvall patrick's name on the senate seat. he said, i support him. here is an apology. >> cenk: it's a stupid thing he said. am i openly and aggressively straight. >> it's not a made up issue. >>
i think it was by fred kaplan of slate. he said, wait a minute. these are the same guys who say if you criticize israel, you're anti-semitic. wait a minute. >> they're inferring something that just isn't there. another problem is a remark he made when james hormel was nominated to be an ambassador remarks he made about gay americans. this is more from martha raddatz raddatz. >> he made a comment about the ambassador to luxembourg calling him openly guy. then in 2002 he spoke out on...
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joining us now a man who knows a lot about general petraeus, fred kaplan. author of the important book "the insurgents." thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> you add ad post script about the paula broadwell affair. were you surprised as we all were when we first heard about day fair. how stunned were you. >> i was pretty surprised. as you know, wolf, i never met an unassuming four star general. dave petraeus was more assuming than many. this was a guy who when he was commander in iraq he just did things on his own. when he was occupying mosul and no command anywhere in iraq he opened up the boarder to syria, he set up economic enterprises, he held elections, all of this on his own. when he commanded all of iraq he basically set up the sons of iraq which paid ex-militants to come over and fight on the american side fighting the jihadist. again on his own authority. he didn't tell his superiors back in washington about this. and these kinds of enterprises, he did this, he had to do it because that was the only way he could succeed o
joining us now a man who knows a lot about general petraeus, fred kaplan. author of the important book "the insurgents." thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> you add ad post script about the paula broadwell affair. were you surprised as we all were when we first heard about day fair. how stunned were you. >> i was pretty surprised. as you know, wolf, i never met an unassuming four star general. dave petraeus was more assuming than many....
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there's an interesting book, fred kaplan has a book coming out i think in january called the insurgent. it's about what he considers a new greet of soldiers and is tried to redefine the role of the military and general petraeus is one of the major subjects i think. it will be interesting to see whether the personal scandal will have died down to get back to the policy issues of the role of generals. >> guest: the one side benefit relating to the kaplan book, i believe simon & schuster pushed up the publication of this book in large part in reaction to the ongoing scandal so it was going to be late january and now it's the beginning of january. >> host: we also want to look at some of the award winners of 2012, the national book awards as we mentioned katherine boo behind the beautiful rivers won the national book award for the but the other nominees included anne applebaum iron curtain and robert caro the passage of power, the boy kings of texas and the late anthony should deed, house of stone. bob minzesheimer any comment on those? >> guest: i admired the anthony should deed book. i r
there's an interesting book, fred kaplan has a book coming out i think in january called the insurgent. it's about what he considers a new greet of soldiers and is tried to redefine the role of the military and general petraeus is one of the major subjects i think. it will be interesting to see whether the personal scandal will have died down to get back to the policy issues of the role of generals. >> guest: the one side benefit relating to the kaplan book, i believe simon & schuster...
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joining us now, pulitzer prize winning journalist, fred kaplan. he's out with the new book "the insurgents" the plot to change the american way of war. great to have you on the show. >> thanks. >> david petraeus, a military revolutionary, wasn't he? he has changed the way we fight wars. >> true. before he was commander in iraq, the army officially considered wars to be large, set pieces, tank on tank. and the kinds of wars that he fought in iraq and afghanistan, they referred to them officially as military operations other than war. they weren't wars. it was called mootwa, and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said we don't do that. >> the first draft of history suggests we worked very well in iraq, not quite as well in afghanistan. >> well, i think you can say it worked tactically in iraq and not at all well in afghanistan. >> right. >> the thing about afghanistan, there's a book that he was highly influenced by, by a french colonel named david galula, and there was one chapter that said conditions that favor the insurgency. and if you looked
joining us now, pulitzer prize winning journalist, fred kaplan. he's out with the new book "the insurgents" the plot to change the american way of war. great to have you on the show. >> thanks. >> david petraeus, a military revolutionary, wasn't he? he has changed the way we fight wars. >> true. before he was commander in iraq, the army officially considered wars to be large, set pieces, tank on tank. and the kinds of wars that he fought in iraq and afghanistan, they...
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. >> the book is called "the sister-in-laws" the author is fred kaplan, good morning to you. >> good morning, thanks. >> obviously let me get this out of the way, the paula broadwell affair, you wrote this whole thing and then you wrote this postscript after this broke, but first the book, the title "the insurgents." >> it's not the taliban, it's not al qaeda. it's petraeus and his circle that were an insurgency within the united states army. >> how do you mean? >> they rebelled against the military officers from within. before petraeus took command in iraq, the definition of war in u.s. army field manuals was a major combat operation, tank on tank, things like fights against insurgents, terrorists, they were called military operations other than war, they weren't even called war. they had an acronym, mootwa. the chief of staff said real men don't do mootwa. they came up in a generation they had fought in el salvador, haiti, boz nina, somalia, this was the war that was coming. we need to turn the army around so it can deal with these in a systematic way and they had study insurgencie
. >> the book is called "the sister-in-laws" the author is fred kaplan, good morning to you. >> good morning, thanks. >> obviously let me get this out of the way, the paula broadwell affair, you wrote this whole thing and then you wrote this postscript after this broke, but first the book, the title "the insurgents." >> it's not the taliban, it's not al qaeda. it's petraeus and his circle that were an insurgency within the united states army. >>...